Saoirse Ronan and John Crowley: 'Emigration is a potent part of the Irish psyche' – video interview

Saoirse Ronan, who stars in Brooklyn, the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Booker longlisted book about a young Irish girl’s emigration to New York in the 1950s, talks to Benjamin Lee about the expectations placed on women at the time and how the Irish fare in Hollywood today. Crowley and Tóibín explore the parallels between the film and the current refugee crisis